Settling down on their big beach blanket, Talia and I are offered food from Steve and Lynnette’s cooler; sweet bread with guava jelly, cheese, banan...s, mango, pineapple. Being as hungry as we all are, there isn’t a lot of small talk. Only once we’ve begun satisfying our appetites do we start comparing notes about our day at the beach. Lynnette’s cheerful brashness is so refreshing. “So,” she says brightly, “did you two do a lot of fucking and sucking today?” Talia and I laugh. “We did our. Often it was just tuna fish in a salad or a casserole.After they had acquired the Old Bastard for their stepfather, there had been little change. With all his money, he kept the household budget tight. Often to squeeze out some money for Mike and Judy, their mother stretched the household funds to the limit. That meant even more tuna fish and cheap ground beef dishes.But right now Judy was of the opinion that a tuna casserole would rank right alongside a sirloin steak.Judy wondered how long she. She flipped on the light switch as she closed the door behind her. It had only been a few hours before that her incident with Brad had consumed her every thought and now the whole thing seemed irrelevant compared to the recent events. She walked over to her computer and stared at the screen for a moment. Her character stood on a small hill staring off into nothingness. Bree reached out and shut the screen off. She was about to head to her bed when she turned back to the computer. Bree leaned. Maybe I chose it because the financial rewards are very good, Mother isn’t well off financially, and hasn’t been for years. When she gave up her career because of the argument she had with her father when she married my father Grandpa was livid and cut her out of the Will. Grandpa was by all accounts a very good and famous Lawyer, but after his reaction she’s hated them ever since. Maybe it was my rebelling against her authoritarian attitude, I don’t know. Any talk that I’ve had with Mother.